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"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."
"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."
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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
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